In search of the person. Towards a real revolution
Journal Title: Scientia et Fides - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The discussion about a difference between brain and soul or mind is now at the center of the anthropological debate. It seems that the pioneers in this current polemic have a reductionistic view of human nature, inherited from the Cartesian solution to mind-body problem and the modern materialistic explanation of reality. This view – dualistic or monistic – about the opposition between material and immaterial structure of the person, claims that as a consequence of scientific progress, the human brain in the future could be completely explained in naturalistic terms. On the other hand, according to the new results of scientific research, this situation reveals the possibility to develop a new, more adequate paradigm of man as an incarnated person. This change was called by many researchers “the passage from the mind-body problem to the person-body problem”. It seems that the Aristotelian-Thomistic approach is the most suitable to describe this “paradigm shift”. Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy undoubtedly encourages lively dialogue between philosophy and contemporary sciences through its dual ontology. Thus, it can give suitable answers for questions about the nature of human reason (intentionality); unity of composition of the human brain and the role of causality in natural processes.
Authors and Affiliations
Michał Oleksowicz
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP407127
- DOI 10.12775/SetF.2016.008
- Views 93
- Downloads 0
El reto afectivo de la investigación interdisciplinar
The affective challenge of interdisciplinary research In this paper I analyze the affective problem related to interdisciplinary research using, as a guiding theme, some of my autobiographical memories linked to Mariano...
La crítica de Juan de santo Tomás del concepto suareciano de materia prima
The John of Saint Thomas' critique of the suarecian concept of the prime matter The figure of Juan Poinsot (Juan de Santo Tomás, Joannis a Santo Thoma) is inserted in the movement of return to a Thomism free of nominali...
Racionalidad de la inducción como minimización entrópica
Rationality of induction as entropic minimization In favour of a fundamental aspect of the epistemology of Mariano Artigas –his commitment to the quest for truth on the part of the scientific theory– I argue about the r...
Die Frage nach dem Handeln Gottes in der Welt als elementares Glaubensproblem
The Question of God´s Action in the World as one Fundamental Aspect of Crisis of Faith Christian religion is mainly based on the fact of God´s action in the world, as the Holy Bible expresses and testifies in many diffe...
Oblicza religii Augusta Cieszkowskiego. Temporalny i dziejowy wymiar doświadczenia religijnego
Faces of Religion of August Cieszkowski. Temporal and Historical Dimension of Religious Experience August Cieszkowski is one of the greatest philosophers of Polish philosophy of nation and history. He was also a thinker...